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Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @04:33PM from the rescue-me-in-the-alps dept.

kkleiner writes "Bojan Nemec from the Jozef Stefan Institute in Slovenia recently presented his skiing robot at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). The robot won't be winning skiing records anytime soon and its usefulness as a ski instructor or in any other capacity seems quite a ways off. Nonetheless, the videos of this robot taking a ride down the ski slopes are well worth watching. In case you are wondering, this is a completely different robot than the one Slashdot covered earlier."

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Re:Get Off My Mountain Lawn (Score:4, Interesting)

by boristdog ( 133725 ) writes: on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @05:46PM (#29829201)

Just be sure to give them Charles De Mar's instuctions:
"Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn".

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